Kisses and Coffee

Oh beautiful for spacious skies... For amber waves of grain... For Purple mountains majesty... Above the fruited plains.... America, America, God shed His Grace on thee... We all know this song, or should I say every American used to know this song and every time we heard it played great emotion and patriotism would stir in ones heart. But this morning while reading Gods word I was saddened to have awaken this morning and not recognize the country I have loved and been faithful to. Furthermore I don't recognize my fellow countrymen... have we all become so numb that we don't hurt for anyone or anything unless it affects us personally? In Isaiah 1:2   Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!  For the Lord has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up  children, And they have rebelled against Me;.... 1:4  Alas, sinful nation,  A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers,  Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to

I grew up thinking holiness was reserved for priests and nuns. I see the danger of this thinking is that we conform more and more to the world because holiness is unattainable; or not even considered as a goal to be desired or even thought about. However the opposite is true in God's word. "..Be holy, for I am holy" First Peter 1:16. So I have to conclude it is possible. How do we become holy? Let's read what Peter had to say... beginning in   1Peter 1:13-16  "Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope freely upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lust, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, "Be holy for I am holy."  I see the world getting darker and darker and yet the contrast between light (holiness) and darkness (the